BY ACCIDENT: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 06840008B28779
English Summary/英文概要： A grieving mother finds solace from her son’s death in a relationship that quickly blurs the line between friendship and intimacy. By Accident portrays a year in the life of a woman after the accidental death of her teenage son. Laura Lucas is numbed by the loss, a loss that is paralleled in the spate of upscale construction—and attendant destruction—in her starter-home neighborhood. It’s about Laura’s relationship with a young tree surgeon who slowly becomes a replacement for her son—but also an object of desire.
The story reveals the delicate nexus where solace becomes sex; the role of men and women as unmarried friends; and examines grief in a marriage. It portrays the pain of change and the poignancy of acceptance through Laura’s eyes, and occasionally, through the quirky outlook of her ten-year-old daughter. And before the story ends, another brutal, random accident will redefine Laura’s life once again.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 這個年輕男人，是她新搬來的鄰居，也是她和10歲女兒的新朋友，並彌補了她意外喪生的兒子在她身上留下的空缺
但對蘿拉來說，這個男人的身份也可能不僅於此... 作者透過蘿拉這個角色，企圖處理一個結了婚的女人在面對人生發生劇變之後〈包含婚姻危機、親人喪生等〉，心理、人生態度乃至看待週遭事物目光的轉變。
透過蘿拉的故事，讀者可ㄧ窺當女人的哀痛轉化成對性的渴求時，中間微妙難以言喻的情愫轉變；以及男人與女人之間是否有可能保有單純的友誼關係；與婚姻關係中女人難以避免會出現的疑慮與不安情緒
在失去兒子懷特後，蘿拉便一直陷入在走不出來的哀傷情緒中。她的先生洛斯則忙於自己的營造生意。
直到一天隔壁住進來一位新鄰居艾略特。這個男人與蘿拉和她十歲的女兒艾比同時成為好友，熱愛大自然的艾略特還會帶著艾比探索大自然。很快地，蘿拉對艾略特出現難以言喻的複雜情愫，這個年輕男人不僅可能彌補了她兒子在她身上留下的失落，另ㄧ方面這個男人也帶給她對生命中出現另一個美好男人所會有的幸福渴望，尤其當她發現她的先生可能對她隱瞞了一個重大不為人知的秘密後…(Kate Cheng)
Awards/获奖情况：Kelly’s latest, a delicate novel of grief and recovery, takes readers deep into the mind of a grieving mother. After Laura’s son, Whit, dies, she’s emotionally paralyzed. Her husband, Russ, is busy with his construction business, and their teen daughter, Ebie, grows disconnected. But when a jovial young arborist named Elliot moves in next door and befriends Laura and Ebie, Laura slowly warms back up to the world, and Elliot, whose fun-loving nature can verge on reckless, takes to Ebie with a Peter Pan–like verve. As it becomes clear that Russ is keeping important secrets from his family, Laura and Elliot’s emotional intimacy creepily escalates (is he a substitute for her son? an object of lust?), and Kelly drops in cinematic flashbacks that ratchet up the tension. Kelly’s characters—all excellent, except cipherlike Russ—imbue this novel with an understated power. Kelly doesn’t go in for the cheap movie-of-the-week melodrama often found in grieving mother fiction, and the reader is much better off for it. (May) ---From Publishers Weekly + 大苹果兩位創辦人推薦 Review
Kelly writes like there’s an angel hiding in her pen. . . . a winner all the way.---Raleigh News & Observer
Susan Kelly has a quiet dignity and honesty.---Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Kelly hones in on both the big and small things that draw women together.---Orlando Sentinel
About the Author/作者介绍： 蘇珊凱莉畢業自北卡羅來納大學，並獲得沃倫威爾森學院創意寫作學院碩士學位。她曾以How Close We Come一書贏得卡羅來納(Carolina Novel Award)最佳小說獎，此書並獲美國每月書會（Book-of-the-Month Club）推薦。
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